My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
We just, you know, we're just sort of doing it like Bewitched, because we just think that the character of Kenny is… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
If I could go back and talk to the me who was just starting to do comedy, I would have told myself… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer than a great bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Today's generation likes stand-up comedies in which the performers give their take on a number of subjects. Some of them are a… — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
“I will tell him something one of the characters said and I can see he is ready to laugh even before I… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
All the greatest comedians use comedy and humor to release pain and sadness, and I think that instead of wanting to live… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I do kind of aspire to do comedy that appeals to a wide range of audiences and doesn't divide people. I never… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“In the center of the room Sarra the demon hung upside down by one leg, its arms bound behind its back, its… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
I'm very hip-oriented. I focus on hips in my comedy - probably more than any other hipster comic who is out there… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I've never been funny. I don't think I'm funny. People say I'm funny. I go, 'No. No. I'm not.' But again, knowing… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
But the great thing about shows now is since we've been doing (Comedy Death Ray), they have lightened up on their booking… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades;… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Remember, we really grew up separately; our life experience was very different because of segregation. So I think comedy is a good… — Riaad Moosa Copy Share Image
It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe.… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
That's when you're laughing the hardest because you're not really in character. You're just trying to learn the moves, but once they… — Malin Akerman Copy Share Image
I find that I'm just drawn to anything that's going to challenge me as an actress. So any time I get a… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever.… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I was seeing this girl and she wanted to get more serious. But I wasn't ready to, I had just gotten out… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever… — Scot Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“An emotional man with bushy eyebrows tells us that if the proposed mosque is built in Bendigo 'the foundation of Australia will… — John Safran Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he… — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
“Oh really?’ said Mayes raising a mocking eyebrow which put Rob in mind of a poor man’s Roger Moore. ‘And what on… — Dougie Brimson Copy Share Image
![“It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe. But it's a very juvenile approach. It also became a weird signal for comedy, in the sense that when you heard the song, it meant comedy was happening on screen. I feel…” quote by Margaret Cho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1d/margaret-cho-1136_80s_it-s-completely-unsexy-yello-oh-yeah-198_2160792.png)
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